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Monday · 76 answers · 5 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-03), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ERA

    16A Mesozoic or Paleozoic

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    ATE

    58A Had lunch, say

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    END

    63D 63-Down, in this puzzle

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    LSD

    10D Counterculture drug, in brief

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    245
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    USA

    28A ___ Today

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    261
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    ORA

    2D British singer Rita

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    NTH

    59D High degree

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    251
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    AVE

    35D Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare)

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    246
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    ESE

    47A Opposite of WNW

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    OUR

    22D Not just my

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    NOS

    61D Rejections

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    USER

    23D ___-friendly

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    246
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    ROD

    43D Axle, e.g.

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    157
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    AWE

    60D Response to seeing an aurora, maybe

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    238
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    CEL

    19A Animation sheet

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    141
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    GRE

    62D College sr.'s test

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    119
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    LESS

    18D Not as much

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    167
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    SUN

    64A What planets revolve around

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    101
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    AWOL

    6D Soldier who has failed to report

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    167
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    TARO

    24D Root used in making poi

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    IRATE

    14A Enraged

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    CEDE

    36D Give up

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    FRO

    49A To and ___

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    114
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    OTHER

    4D Last multiple-choice option, often

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    114
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    SIRE

    40D Father

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    ADORN

    66A Decorate

    12
    72
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    USB

    29A Kind of computer port

    12
    59
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    RAG

    11A Final use for an old T-shirt

    11
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    BERET

    7D Military cap

    10
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    EPS

    67A Mini-albums

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    54
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    NIECE

    52D Sibling's daughter

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    BIB

    1D Accessory for a baby in a highchair

    9
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    EWER

    26D Large jug

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    SOHO

    48D London theater district

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    ARENAS

    12D Concert venues

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    GLEN

    57D Valley

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    80
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    HELEN

    68A ___ of Troy

    8
    59
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    RERAN

    32A Showed again

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    66
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    LEFT

    39D Democrats and Socialists, with "the"

    7
    56
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    EYELET

    20A Hole for threading a lace

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    25
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    RODE

    38D Was a passenger

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    ALIENS

    46D Extraterrestrials

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    CAIN

    55A Brother of Abel

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    ORATED

    53A Made a grand speech

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    ABDUL

    6A Paula of "American Idol"

    5
    28
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    ANVIL

    51D Object hitting people's heads in old cartoons

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    32
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    THEIR

    42A Gender-neutral possessive

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    31
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    POSED

    69A Sat for a portrait

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    22
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    BRET

    30D "American Psycho" author ___ Easton Ellis

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    ZAC

    3D Efron of "The Greatest Showman"

    3
    22
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    DEPTH

    8D One of the three dimensions

    3
    21
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    BONA

    21A ___ fide (genuine)

    2
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    CDCASE

    44D Jewel box

    2
    12
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    RECORD

    11D 4.75 seconds to assemble a Mr. Potato Head, per Guinness

    2
    11
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    WOODSY

    31A Like the smell of trees

    2
    10
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    CHASED

    44A Ran after

    2
    6
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    IVOTED

    41A Text on a red, white and blue sticker

    2
    6
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    NIGHTS

    56A Times between dusk and dawn

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    3
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    UPA

    9D Kick ___ fuss

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    TWICE

    65A How often the time is 12:00 each day

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    ALISON

    33D Cartoonist Bechdel

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    13
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    GALAXY

    13D Milky Way, e.g.

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    10
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    WEEPS

    15A What "my guitar gently" does, in a classic George Harrison song

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    10
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    BOZOS

    1A Buffoons

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    9
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    THELORAX

    25A Dr. Seuss book with the quote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

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    BOOYAH

    21D "I crushed it!!!"

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    HEATUP

    45D Start to escalate

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    RACEBY

    34A Zoom past

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    ASADO

    54D South American barbecue

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    DELOREAN

    50A Time machine car in "Back to the Future"

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    NAVELORANGE

    59A Fruit with a "bellybutton"

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    2
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    BACHELORPAD debut

    17A Home for a single guy

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    LOBSTERTRAP debut

    27D Cage for crustaceans

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    OUTROS debut

    22A "Please like and subscribe" and the like, on YouTube videos

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    ROLEREVERSALS debut

    37A Psychotherapy switcheroos ... or what are hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 59-Across?

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    SEEYOUNEVER debut

    5D Rude goodbye to an enemy

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